Frequently Asked Questions - Debian

The short answer is that TeX doesn't know how to deal with UTF-8 (or rather non-ASCII) characters. XeTeX has been designed to work around these limitations. The easiest way to generate PDFs is to install Xe(La)TeX and use the 'xedemo' templates - these templates have been 'ported' from LaTeX to XeLaTeX.

Distribution specific install instructions listed below.

Debian / Ubuntu

Install texlive-xetex that includes xelatex

apt-get install texlive-xetex

but you need to patch LaTeX::DriverInstall liblatex-{driver,encode,table}-perl for latex

LedgerSMB xelatex configuration

Install xelatex and change the LedgerSMB configuration from the menu:System -> System Defaults -> Templates directoryChange to "xedemo"

Change a path

From the mailing list: (Chris Travers)Right now, I am open to suggestions on a better approach, as the Template::Latex api's don't seem to work to do this, but I resorted to changing the paths in LaTeX::Driver::Paths directly (find the location with locate LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm). This file gets written at installation time for the LaTeX::Driver module and so I consider it reasonably editable.